Article 22.
1. Articles 5 and 7(1)(b) do not apply in relation to anything done before 1st July 1983 by a person in his capacity as liquidator of a company or as receiver or manager of a company’s property.
2. Subject to paragraph 1—
(a)Article 5 applies in a case where a person is convicted on indictment of an offence which he committed (and, in the case of a continuing offence, has ceased to commit) before 1st July 1983; but in such a case a disqualification order under that Article shall not be made for a period in excess of 5 years;
(b)that Article does not apply in a case where a person is convicted on summary conviction if he had consented to be dealt with summarily before that date.
3. Subject to paragraph 1, Article 7 applies in relation to an offence committed or other thing done before 1st July 1983; but a disqualification order made on the grounds of such an offence or other thing done shall not be made for a period in excess of 5 years.
4. The powers of a court under Article 8 are not exercisable in a case where a person is convicted of an offence which he committed (and, in the case of a continuing offence, had ceased to commit) before 1st July 1983.
5. For the purposes of Article 6(1) and Article 8, no account is to be taken of any offence which was committed, or any default order which was made, before 1st January 1982.
6. Where—
(a)an application is made for a disqualification order under Article 9(2)(a), and
(b)the company in question went into liquidation before the date of the coming into operation of Part II,
the court shall not make an order under that Article unless it could have made a disqualification order under Article 308 of the Companies Order as it had effect immediately before the date specified in sub-paragraph (b).
7. An application shall not be made under Article 11 in relation to a report made or information or documents obtained before the date of the coming into operation of Part II.